International

05-08-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies MUMBAI/ NEW DELHI/ SINGAPORE: Adverse weather across top rice suppliers in Asia, including the biggest exporter India, is threatening to reduce the output of the world’s most important food staple and stoke food inflation that is already near record highs. Rice has bucked the trend …

05-08-2022 ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet his Russian counterpart on Friday in Sochi, after brokering a grain shipment deal between Moscow and Kyiv and as a new Turkish military intervention in Syria remains a possibility. The summit with Vladimir Putin comes in the same week that a …

04-08-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: Taliban said that the government had no information about al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri “entering and living” in capital city Kabul and warned the United States to never repeat an attack on Afghan soil. The United States killed Zawahiri with a …

04-08-2022 LONDON: Europe’s human rights court on Wednesday refused a request from the parents of a 12-year-old British boy with brain damage to intervene in a decision to remove life support. The verdict from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) follows unsuccessful appeals by 12-year-old Archie Battersbee’s parents Hollie …

04-08-2022 TAIPEI: China launched unprecedented live-fire military drills in six areas that ring Taiwan on Thursday, a day after a visit by US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the self-ruled island that Beijing regards as its sovereign territory. Soon after the scheduled start at 0400 GMT, China’s state …

04-08-2022 SEOUL: North Korea warned it will “never tolerate” the United States’ criticism of the isolated country’s nuclear programme, calling Washington the “kingpin of nuclear proliferation” and saying it would not allow any encroachment of its sovereign rights. North Korea has conducted missile tests at an unprecedented pace this year …

03-08-2022 BEIJING: China is planning to ramp up large-scale military drills around the self-ruled island of Taiwan, which began as US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi flew into Taipei for a visit that has angered Beijing. The unprecedented six days of military exercises began on Tuesday night after Pelosi landed on …

03-08-2022 Bureau Report CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: The Australian government has said it is confident its greenhouse gas reduction target will be enshrined in law after negotiating amendments with senators from outside the new administration’s ranks. A bill to enshrine the centre-left Labor Party’s election pledge to reduce Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions …

03-08-2022 BAGHDAD: Supporters of influential Iraqi Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr, who have camped inside Iraqi’s parliament since Saturday, have been instructed to leave the building but to continue their protests outside the parliamentary offices. In a tweet, Mohamed Saleh al-Iraqi, a senior pro-Sadr loyalist, told hundreds of supporters to leave …

03-08-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Hundreds of women have been hospitalized after a gas leak at an apparel manufacturing plant in India, police said on Wednesday. The workers complained of nausea and vomiting at a plant in the Atchyutapuram district of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday night. …